HealthIT Answers December 27, 2020
By Steven Posnack, M.S., M.H.S. Deputy National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
In a companion blog post I covered some foundational points about the 21st Century Cures Act’s (Cures Act) information blocking law and the regulation ONC issued to implement the law.
As a quick recap, there are three categories of “actors” to whom the law applies: health care providers, health IT developers of certified health IT, and health information networks (HINs)/health information exchanges (HIEs). Based on the information blocking law, in general, if these three types of actors engage in practices that interfere with the access, exchange, or use of electronic health information (EHI), they could be subject to penalties or other disincentives.
If, under the law, actors make...
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